Phonograph-light.



W. G. WINTER.

PHONOGRAPH LIGHT.

APPLICATION men na -12. 1911.

1,261,667. Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

INVENTOR AT'roRN EV WRTNESSES v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM G. WINTER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PHONOGRAPH-LIGHT.

1,261,667. inactivation of Letters Patent Patented Apr. 2, 1918. Application filed October 12, 1817. Serial No. 196,218.

To ullavhom it may concern: and from a point 9 in contact with the tone 601 Be it known that I, W nnrAM G. Wmrnn, arm, to a source of electricity designated at a citizen of the United States, residing at Through these wires'the current flows St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have ininto the s chat and into the arm. The cllp 6 vented new and useful Improvements in has a spr p finger 1Q overlying and nor- Phonogra h-Lights, of which the following many-out contact with the arm, and when it is a speeigcation. the tip .of this finger is pressed into contact is invention relates to illumination, therewith, the circuit is completed and the and more especially to a combined light and 1 m mina e As well known, the left structure for furniture particularlyfor h}!!! 118111111X g ps Z tone arm 2 the grafonolas, victrolas, and other musical inig t hand 1s ad ustlng and changing the so struments of the same nature wherein the n edle. Y needle is frequently adjusted and changed. n d Over and around the socket is The pa use of the invention is to proa t bular guard 1 1-preferably long one 11 16 vide a sine electric i ht mounted in a. suptoproJ c tire y beyond the light and port which is clamped. arm, including connections with a suitable as at 12, and by ad usting source of electricity ,and a.;0i1'011lt closer light may be directed exa g m p adapted to be actuated b one hand as it by the user. Of course the rocket which- 0 grasps said tone arm, whi e the other hand connects the clip and socket may be bent at' Is free to remove such needle and insert a the'time the attachment is applied, and the new ong; attachment at Sh'uctural details of the device, as adapted that this bendlng and a justing of the same for one=musical instrument of this t e are will direct thehght onto the needle holder #6 set forth below, reference'being he to the and the disk where it will not shine inlthedrawmgs WhBI'BlIl-. eyes of the operator or m the/faces of any Figure 1-is' a general perspective view of spectators who might be seated in the room m invention as applied to a graphophone. 1 or on a darkened porch. The entire attach- 2 is a si e e of a lumbia machine with the reproducer, arm without interfering with the action of on the pivoted tone having its front end prefera3l beveled 0E 66- cvation of the tone arm ment is so light that it is carried by the tone showing my attachment applied and the the same in the least particular. Forasmall 80 tubular guard in section. A lamp of perhaps four volts, a single dry cell Fig. 3 is anenlarged detail of the atwill be sufliclent and the same ma be stored tachment removed. 1 in a, remote part of the casing an the Wires In the drawings we may assume that A led thereto in a manner not v to is the sw' ging rtion or tone arm of the explain in detail. Devices of somewhat 8B instrument, .8 e sound box, and D the the same character have heretofore disk, and the letter .N designates the 'posimounted on the goose neck or on the sound tion of the needle which is mounted in a. 'box, but they had the objection that they 40 holder as well understood. caused the light to shine in the face of the split ring 1 lined with felt or other soft inback, and th threw some additional weight sulator 2 and having its ends outturned and onto thh :1 le. connected by a screw 3 which may be set up What is claimed as new, is-

45 to fasten the clip on the tone arm ;"a bracket Means for lighting a. phonograph comtjdepends from this clip and carries a lamp prising a split ring having its ends pro 05 socket 5 into which is screwed a pea light ecting outwardly, a screw engaging with 6, and two wires 7 and 8 lead res ectively said ends for clamping the ring to the tone from the central terminal within e socket arm of the phonograph, a felt washer car- My attachment comprises a spring clip or operator when he turned the goose neck 00 vied h said ring, a bracket connected with said r 52 an electric lamp socket carried by mid bracket. a tubular guard'surronndin;;: said Iqu'liet and carried by the bracket,

3 (IH'tlll wires cmjmgcled respectively to one Hf the socket terminals and t0 the arm, and the ntiwr socket icrrmnal being in electrical connection with the bracket and ring, and a spring finger connected with the ring and extending parallel with the arm and adapted 10 to be pressed into engagement therewith to complete the circuit.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature.

WILLIAM G. WINTER. 

